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The art of arguing with shoes until they admit defeat.
means The act of repairing or making shoes by hand, or more loosely, of putting something together roughly from whatever parts are available.
from From 'cobbler,' a shoe-mender, attested in English since the 14th century, with the verb 'to cobble' following. The deeper root is genuinely murky — etymologists shrug here — but the word soon stretched beyond leather: to 'cobble together' came to mean assembling something hastily and clumsily, the verbal equivalent of patching a sole with whatever scrap was on the bench. Note that the round 'cobblestones' underfoot are unrelated in origin, despite the tempting rhyme.
- old guild
- Cordwainers made new shoes; cobblers only repaired old ones
- patron saint
- Crispin, beheaded then made shoemakers' eternal mascot
- the last
- Foot-shaped form gives us hold fast to your last
- dying trade
- Repair shops vanished as cheap shoes became disposable
salvatore ferragamo — italian shoemaker who built luxury empire from cobbling in florence, founded 1927